This so succinctly describes the problem that I created an account just to upvote you. These laws are essentially fabricating scarcity - the medium has /solved

This so succinctly describes the problem that I created an account just to upvote you. These laws are essentially fabricating scarcity - the medium has /solved/ the distribution problem, so of course anyone with an interest in monopolising distribution would try to stymie it. This reminds me tangentially of software developers - especially iOS devs (of which I am one) - who get upset when their apps are cloned. It only seems unfair to those devs because they refuse to evolve with the available technology. You just don't make profits in the same way anymore. You want to take advantage of simple free distribution, but of course you don't want it to be TOO free! I will now go out and buy that book...